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TheCentaur on The Moment of Truth
Ah Heathkit. Things were much easier to troubleshoot when they were built with:) Excellent article by the way! Very well done. Thanks!
View Articleclever on PRT-11830 - TuxCase - Raspberry Pi Enclosure
how does this look with this cable it looks like it might bend too sharply going out the hole
View ArticleR0B0T1CS on COM-11694 - Silicon Nitride Igniter - 12V
Well, I guess it ’s about time I threw together that fully reusable, shoulder mount model rocket launcher I planned many years ago… :)
View Articleagemoz on The Moment of Truth
I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the original write-up, this is called the 4-wire resistance measurement and is a standard and very effective in locating shorts on power planes, even multiple...
View Articleisnoop on COM-11694 - Silicon Nitride Igniter - 12V
Darn… Thermite ignites at something like 2,200C.There goes my self-destructing self-destruct button project.
View ArticleCustomer #442513 on DEV-10628 - MP3 Player Shield
I have a project and I am not sure the best way to make it work. I have an audio board from a pinball machine that I want to replace with an MP3 player. It has two binary address lines and 8 data bits...
View ArticleCustomer #442519 on DEV-10899 - LilyTiny
Will this work with the Tiny AVR Programmer? https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11460
View ArticleDom on DEV-09716 - FTDI Basic Breakout - 5V
Can’t seem to get the chip recognized by my computer Win7 x64. Either “Device cannot start (Code 10)” or when manually trying to install the drivers it returns “The system cannot find the file...
View ArticleTh0mpy on BatchPCB and SparkFun are Going Their Separate Ways
I’ve emailed all parties involved but still haven’t gotten a response. Does anyone know what is happening with this?
View ArticleCustomer #39181 on DEV-11838 - Papilio Pro LX9
Now, this is really nice. Been wanting to mess with the Spartan f6, but until now, all the dev boards seemed awfully expensive.
View ArticleCustomer #436831 on TOL-10707 - Soldering Iron Variable Temperature 50W
I keep working to improve the cosmetics of my iron. Notice the action of the temperature knob feels a bit cheap? On closer inspection, the plastic knob mates to a plastic shaft on the potentiometer. I...
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TheCentaur on TOL-11866 - Analog Panel Meter - 0 to 20mA (Ding and Dent)
Robert,It could of been worse I suppose. They could of shown up looking like this: :)Still, useful meters!
View ArticleCustomer #396088 on Turn your ProMicro into a USB Keyboard/Mouse
Just a quick thing I noticed. I was trying to make a simple button that would send a CMD + S (to save a doc in my Mac) and when I tried to use the KEY_MODIFIER_LEFT_GUI, which according to this...
View ArticleJoelEB on KIT-10861 - Simon - Surface Mount Stenciling Kit
Most hot air station allow you to control the air flow. As long as it’s turned down, you shouldn’t have any trouble with parts blowing away. The trick is to gently tap them onto the solder paste so...
View ArticleM-Short on COM-10747 - PowerSwitch Tail II
That’s the problem “know what you are doing” a lot of people don’t. I’ve used these and you can’t make it easier for people to not electrocute themselves with mains power.
View ArticleCustomer #442678 on The Moment of Truth
In the PCB layout, include a few passive 0806 (say) pads to isolate parts of a prototype design. Short the pads individually with a 0-ohm resistor to test each section.
View Article172pilot on Chernobyl and Back
re: Guts: That’s what I was thinking.. Wouldn’t catch me climbing on a modern US tower that tall, let alone one built 30+ years ago in the cold war era soviet union potentially having no maintenance in...
View Articlebeaker353 on TOL-11866 - Analog Panel Meter - 0 to 20mA (Ding and Dent)
Any spec of the burden voltage of these?
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